Season 6, Episode 25 - "Real Time with Bill Maher 6x25"
31 October, 2008
Guests: singer John Legend, award-winning columnist Connie Schultz, Republican strategist Amy Holmes, prominent African American scholar Cornel West, filmmaker Michael Moore On Palin You'd be looking four years down the road, where she has four more years under her belt as governor of Alaska. And we do know that among women, she's been polarizing. But the women who like her, love her. They love Sarah Palin. They identify with her. – Amy Holmes I really think if she has the intellectual heft, if she actually studied, you know, the issues that she could have studied before this, but she wasn't really ready to do, then maybe in four years she could be ready. But, I don't see it. – John Legend American society is wobbling! The financial markets are near collapse, and the precious children's souls are empty more and more. We need leadership. We don't need another Clinton. We need a Lincoln. – Cornel West On Joe The Plumber I think this says it all about the difference between the two parties: McCain is campaigning with Joe the Plumber; Obama is down in Florida campaigning with Al Gore. One guy won the Nobel Prize in climate science; the other guy can get a fork out of a garbage disposal. – Bill Maher I think this is their attempt to show that they know the regular people. And I kind of feel sorry for Joe the Plumber. And here's why. This guy is a hapless individual, had no idea what he was getting himself into. It's like the older woman who said, "But he's an Arab." And - and John McCain said, "No, no, no, he's not." But, then she became, you know, the fodder for comedy shows. These are ordinary people who could be my relatives. – Connie Schultz He's talking about Iraq. He said, "I'm not sorry we're in Iraq. We liberated another country. I mean, freedom. Now they've got it. I don't know if you guys are Christians or not, but that's like somebody coming - coming to Jesus and - and getting saved." So, you know, he goes right to, we're in Iraq; it's just like getting saved by Jesus. I'm just saying religion warps thinking. – Bill Maher On Obama Where the economics of greed, the culture of indifference and the politics of fear have been brought together in such a way that it hides and conceals the plight of poor people and working people. Look what they said about Martin Luther King, Jr. He was "communist." They'd probably say Jesus - Jesus loved the poor - "communist." Amos loved the poor. "Communist." So, in that sense, it's an exciting thing to behold. But, we're in a transitional moment. The real question is, can we generate a commitment to fairness and justice in the face of greed? Can we generate compassion in the face of indifference? And can we generate hope in the face of fear? And that's what Brother Barack is all about. – Cornel West On the Obama Muslim Rumor Look at the Democratic primary. If you want to talk about where did this Muslim thing start, you remember that there was some low-level Hillary campaign staffer who sent that picture of Barack Obama in a headdress or a head-wrap to the "Drudge Report," and it was posted there. That was coming from in the Democratic primary. – Amy Holmes On the Difference Between Socialists and Communists Well, I think the difference is that, really, there isn't any difference. Except, like I said, I've never seen him at any of our central committee meetings. Actually, I did see an angry black preacher there at one time, and a Dixie Chick or two. But, I've never seen Obama at any of our commie meetings. – Michael Moore
